Journalist and writer Arthur Nicholas Evans has died at the age of 72. His agency confirmed the author’s death today.
DailyMailAccording to the news; Evans died suddenly on Tuesday. It was reported that Evans had a heart attack.
THE BOOK SOLD 15 MILLION
Published in 1995, The Horse Whisperer has sold nearly 15 million copies worldwide and is a bestseller in 20 countries.
The book was adapted for the big screen three years later, starring Robert Redford. Scarlett Johansson, one of the indispensable names of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was among the names who took part in the movie, and even with this role, Johansson had a break in Hollywood.
WHO IS NICHOLAS EVANS?
According to Haber Global; Nicholas Evans was born in Worcestershire in 1950. He studied law at Oxford University and graduated with first class honors. Before moving to television, he worked as a journalist for the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle. Evans has made films about US politics and the Middle East for Weekend World’s current affairs series.
While living in the south-west of England, Evans met a blacksmith and learned that whispering to horses could heal traumatized horses, resulting in his bestselling book, which has been translated into 36 languages.
in November 2020 The Daily Mail While writing about the book for
“Usually, writing a novel is like climbing a mountain: it’s slow and laborious, and you can get lost easily. But with the Horse Whisperer, I could see the story unfolding before me, like stones thrown down a river. All I had to do was put one foot in front of the other.”
The famous author, whose book was adapted into a movie, also expressed that he did not like the second half of the movie while commenting on the movie:
“While I think Robert Redford did a great job, I don’t think the second half of the movie really worked. He kind of lost himself. I don’t think they really had the script right before we started shooting, and once you start there’s never enough time to fix it.”
HE KEPT LIFE WITH Daughter’s Kidney
Continuing to produce literary works after The Horse Whisperer, Evans came back from the brink of death with his family in 2008. Evans and his family had been severely poisoned by the fungus. The author, singer-songwriter wife Charlotte, along with her brother and aunt suffered kidney failure and was on dialysis after the incident.
Evans survived after being on the waiting list for nearly three years, when his only daughter gave him one of his kidneys.
Moreover, it was Evans himself who harvested the mushrooms from his brother-in-law’s 13,000-acre Scottish Highlands estate and then cooked it for his family.